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00:01	wow , we are going to learn about one of
00:08	the most famous works of art in all of history
00:15	here . It is . What is this painting called
00:20	? Uh huh . The Mona lisa . This video
00:23	is all about the mona lisa . Yeah . Yeah
00:28	. The Mona lisa is a painting from the renaissance
00:31	period in Italy the renaissance period was an amazing time
00:36	for the arts , science and culture in europe .
00:40	Yeah , it was painted by someone you may have
00:43	heard of . His name was Leonardo da Vinci .
00:46	Here is a portrait that Leonardo da Vinci made of
00:50	himself . Leonardo da Vinci was an incredible inventor ,
00:58	scientist and artist . He kind of did it all
01:01	. He was like the renaissance champion . Hey look
01:07	at this . Here is a statue of Leonardo da
01:10	Vinci . He painted the Mona Lisa sometime in the
01:14	early 1500 so that was a long time ago .
01:19	Yeah . Mhm . All right . So this guy
01:23	Leonardo da Vinci painted this amazing work of art ,
01:26	the Mona lisa and it happened during a special time
01:29	known as the renaissance . Now you may have guessed
01:36	this , but the mona lisa is a portrait of
01:38	a real person . Her name was Liza del Gioconda
01:42	. Her husband commissioned the painting Leonardo da Vinci never
01:46	got paid for the mona lisa and didn't finish the
01:49	painting until years later when he was living in France
01:54	. It has remained in France since then and today
01:58	is owned by the country of France . So the
02:01	mona lisa will never be sold and remains one of
02:05	the greatest art treasures in the world . Ready for
02:12	some wonderful news . You can go see the mona
02:16	lisa . That's right . It is kept in a
02:18	museum called la lucha . Can you say that ?
02:21	It's french . It's a little tricky la lucha .
02:24	It now has its own room and they make sure
02:27	it stays safe . You see something happened to the
02:33	mona lisa back in 1911 , that was over 100
02:37	years ago . Someone who worked at the museum at
02:41	lula stole the mona lisa start . He took the
02:45	mona lisa hidden in his coat and left . People
02:52	were outraged . Here is a picture of what the
02:55	wall looked like without the mona lisa . The wall
02:58	is so sad with that gap . Oh my goodness
03:04	, thankfully the thief was caught and after two years
03:07	of being missing , the mona lisa was back at
03:10	Lalova . Everyone was so excited that the mona lisa
03:14	was back and that made the mona lisa even more
03:17	famous . There is so much about this painting to
03:23	love . One thing that people often notice about the
03:26	mona lisa is that smile of hers . She looks
03:29	happy . It's just a shame that Liza Delgado condo
03:34	never saw what the painting finally looked like . She
03:37	probably would have liked it . We want to share
03:43	one more fact about Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece . Did
03:47	you know the mona lisa was painted on a wooden
03:51	panel ? That's right . A wooden panel . That
03:54	means the thief was hiding a panel of wood in
03:58	his coat . The mona lisa , probably the most
04:01	famous painting in history was painted on a wooden panel
04:06	. That's pretty cool . That's pretty cool . Look
04:09	at that wooden panel , it's nice , but it
04:12	isn't the mona lisa , let's be honest . Okay
04:15	. It's not the mona lisa . Yeah . Special
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04:31	As always , you are awesome . Thanks for learning
04:35	with us .

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